المؤلف
Unknown
تاريخ النشر
1883
مكان النشر
Tunisia (made) -
الموضوع
Stars
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Height: 95.5cm, Width: 61cm, Depth: 5cm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
1277-1883
رقم السجل
1277-1883
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
1883
ملاحظات
Glazed windows of this type, both plain and decorative, are found in traditional buildings in Turkey and the Arab lands. They are usually set at a high level, over unglazed windows that are sometimes covered by shutters and screens. This window was made for display at the International Colonial Exhibition held in Amsterdam in 1883. It consists of small pieces of glass of different colours arranged in patterns within a plaster framework. It provides a late example of Islamic geometric ornament, in which balance among the individual design components is no longer maintained. One element, the starbursts based on a sixteen-pointed star, is visually dominant.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Carved stucco and stained glass Stucco Glass Carving
Fiziksel açıklama
This Tunisian Islamic stained glass window is carved from a rectangular slab of stucco and backed with red, green, yellow, orange and blue glass. The design is based around an elaborate geometric star pattern. The perforations are carved with a downward slant to direct incoming back-light to the floor. The design is topped with a carved lobed arch.